NEW YORK (VNS) — President Truong Tan Sang attended the Global Leaders' Meeting on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in New York, the US on Sunday (New York time) as part of his activities at the UN Summit. Addressing the event, the Vietnamese leader highlighted the country's achievements in building laws, institutions and national strategies on gender equality. Gender equality had been mainstreamed in every national development programme and strategy, he declared. According to the President, women account for 48.4 per cent of the labour force, 24 per cent of NA deputies, and 25 per cent of entrepreneurs in Viet Nam. He affirmed the country's commitment to narrowing the gender gap across all sectors, while improving women's access to healthcare services, education, and jobs, especially those in disadvantaged areas. Viet Nam would make efforts to gradually eliminate all forms of violence against women, he stressed, stating that the country would work with the UN and … [Read more...] about President speaks on gender equality at New York forum
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President attends gender equality meeting, CGI in New York
New York, September 28 (VNA) – President Truong Tan Sang attended the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in New York, the US on September 27 (New York time) as part of his sideline activities at the UN Summit. Addressing the event, the Vietnamese leader highlighted the country’s achievements in building laws, institutions and national strategies on gender equality. Gender equality has been mainstreamed in every national development programme and strategy, he declared. According to the President, women account for 48.4 percent of the labour force, 24 percent of NA deputies, and 25 percent of entrepreneurs in Vietnam. He affirmed the country’s strong commitments to prioritising resources to narrow the gender gap across sectors, while further improving the access of women and girls, especially those in disadvantaged areas, to healthcare service, education, and job. Vietnam will make every effort to gradually eliminate all … [Read more...] about President attends gender equality meeting, CGI in New York
Chairman meets Japanese parliament speaker in New York
NA Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung and Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan Tadamori Oshima NDO/VNA - Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Nguyen Sinh Hung had a meeting with Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan Tadamori Oshima on August 31 while attending the 4th World Conference of Speakers of Parliament in New York, the United States. At the meeting, the Vietnamese NA chairman spoke highly of the Japanese legislature’s contribution to the success of the 132nd Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly (IPU-132) held in Hanoi as well as its support of the friendship and cooperation between the two countries and their peoples. The two nations should continue to hold high-level meetings on a regular basis and ramp up exchange activities between the two parliaments and their representatives as well as the friendship parliamentarians’ unions to further strengthen the bilateral strategic partnership, Hung proposed. He expressed hope for the constant support … [Read more...] about Chairman meets Japanese parliament speaker in New York
State President has a busy working day in New York
VNGOP - As part of his official visit to the United States, State President Nguyễn Minh Triết had many activities on June 19 in New York City, the first destination in the US trip. President Nguyễn Minh Triết gives speech to the US businesses In the morning (local time), State President Nguyễn Minh Triết and his entourage paid a visit to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE Euronext) and witnessed the signing ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Hồ Chí Minh City Securities Trading Center and NYSE Euronext. Working with the NYSE Euronext executives, the State President emphasized that Vietnam, not only maintaining its average annual GDP growth rate of 7.5% during 2001-2006, is shifting its economic structure toward industrialization, modernization, increasing the role of private sector and stabilizing its macro-economy. Vietnam is giving priority to comprehensive economic reform on the basis of the country's WTO commitments and other international … [Read more...] about State President has a busy working day in New York
Argentina, Britain spat over disputed islets at UN headquarters
Senior diplomats from Argentina and Britain on Friday traded accusations over the contested Malvinas Islands (called by Britain as Falkland Islands) at separate press conferences held at the UN Headquarters in New York. Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman, who gave the first press conference, urged Britain to comply with UN resolutions, sit down at the negotiating table and "refrain from this military escalation that they are carrying out in the South Atlantic with the introduction of the latest generation of warships and warplanes, and dispatching a nuclear submarine with the capacity to unload nuclear weapons." The islands off Argentina's eastern coast, called the Falklands by the British and the Malvinas by Argentineans, have been at the center of the decades-old feud between the two countries. Tensions have been on the rise between Britain and Argentina as the former announced recently that it would explore for oil in the surrounding waters, as the 30th anniversary of … [Read more...] about Argentina, Britain spat over disputed islets at UN headquarters